Today we are featuring a poem excerpted from the book Collateral Intentions by Constantine Dhonau. Constantine is sharing a few poems with us between August and February and he will be dropping in for an interview coming up on December 18th. He would love for you to visit him via:
Night clouds blush
Upon being exposed
Morning sun and shadow
Stripe the earth
A meadow sings
Contentment by songbird
Preening its feathers
For the lone observer
Single trees
Stand in forest
Before their leaves
Prime into parchment
Still soft and supple
As tanned deer hide
They tell the grass
Of seasons past
Mealsome trunks squelch underfoot
Digesting in death
On the forest floor
Feeding the trees of tomorrow
Dirt and discarded needles
Yield to boulder and lichen
Valleys yawn open
Baring mountain teeth
Their morning breath
Rises from the void
Awakening drops of sweat
Resting on my skin
Ridgelines broil in Autumn hues
Slithering between prominences
As thunderous stomps
March down from above
The sun melts leaves
Into drops of shade
Draining into pools
Into rapids
Drawn into coniferous undertow
High noon heat
Stuffs my ears with cotton
Muffling cries of chattering insects
Beckoning the blanket of night
Wind pours canopies
Into roaring waterfalls
I wash ashore
My fireside refuge
I read bedtime stories
To the pregnant moon
Stars occasionally fall to earth
Burning their epitaphs in the sky
Spring’s pubescent boil
Plateaus into a low Summer simmer
Languishes into Fall
Even water hardens in Winter
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